Mankind
Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Spring 2002)
pp. 285-312
Racial Profiling: Is There an
Empirical Basis?
Jared Taylor and Glayde Whitney
The disparity between public sensibilities and empirical
data has become so extreme that certain topics can
no longer be investigated without bringing down cries
of "racism". Nevertheless, blacks commit
violent crimes at four to eight times the white rate.
Hispanics commit violent crimes at about three times
the white rate, and Asians at one half to three quarters
the white rate. Blacks are as much more criminally
violent than whites, as men are more violent than
women. Therefore, just as police stop and question
men more often than women, they should stop blacks
more often than whites. Of the approximately 1,700,000
interracial crimes of violence involving blacks and
whites, 90 percent are committed by blacks against
whites. Blacks are 50 times more likely than whites
to commit individual acts of interracial violence.
They are up to 250 times more likely than whites to
engage in multiple-offender or group interracial violence.
There is more black-on-white than black-on-black violent
crime. Fifty-six percent of violent crimes committed
by blacks have white victims. Only two to three percent
of violent crimes committed by whites have black victims.
Violent crime and interracial violence are important,
agonizing concerns in this country, and we cannot
begin to formulate solutions until we understand the
problems.
